Definition of "limekilns" [limekilns]

• Plural form of limekiln. (noun)

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• "The furnaces became museums, the limestone quarries were draped in silence, and the derelict limekilns buried in the woods; the ghosts of jinnys, mules, donkeys and cobs clip-clopped into shadows of the Edge."
• "This was the relic of a field from way back, once used for the ponies that hauled limestone from quarry faces and pits to limekilns."
• "Also three boys confessed afterwards to throwing stones at a funny tramp, knocking about all wet and muddy, and, it seemed, very drunk, in the narrow deep lane by the limekilns."